Natasha Tonge, Ph.D.

CA-DXI Trainer

Dr. Natasha Tonge is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology (Clinical Psychology Program) and serves as a trainer for the Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Interviewing Trainings.

She received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020. Dr. Tonge's current research is focused on trust/mistrust in patient-provider relationships, specifically for mental health service delivery and in healthcare contexts. She is interested in studying how to best assess mistrust and fear of negative evaluation in patient-provider relationships when mental health is a potential treatment target as well as how trust in the patient-provider relationship is influenced by context. With regard to the latter, she studies whether the type of treatment delivery (e.g., mHealth, telehealth, face-to-face) or type of provider relationship (e.g., nursing, physician, social worker, psychologist) influence patient-provider trust. Understanding how those with minoritized and/or stigmatized identities (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, sexual/gender minorities, serious mental illness) experience trust in the patient-provider relationship is also central to her research program.